Oil Independence Under Trump ?

Kent WA

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The answer is no. Sean Hannity: "If you look pre-COVID" under Trump "we didn't import a single barrel of oil from Saudia Arabia" False Here's why: Rattling off a list of praises for former President Donald Trump during an interview with Donald Trump Jr., Fox News host Sean Hannity falsely claimed that under Trump, the U.S. completely scrapped its reliance on oil imports from Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries. "If you look pre-COVID, your dad, he got us to energy independence," Hannity told the younger Trump during the Dec. 1 episode of "Hannity," his primetime TV show. "We didn’t import a single barrel of oil from Saudi Arabia, the Middle East." At the end of Trump’s presidency the U.S. was moving toward oil independence in the right direction but not there yet. It's inaccurate for Hannity to claim that "pre-COVID" under Trump, the U.S. "didn’t import a single barrel of oil from Saudi Arabia." In 2019, the last year before the pandemic, the U.S. imported about 500,000 barrels of crude oil from Saudi Arabia per day, and over 182 million barrels in total, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Imports also came from other countries in the Middle East.